30 Day
30-Day Anxiety-Reduction Breathwork Challenge
Participants will engage in daily guided breathwork sessions using the Othership Breathwork App. This intervention aims to reduce anxiety levels and enhance recovery through structured breathing techniques.
- $22.00 Total price
- 2 participants
- 30 Days Duration
- $22.00 Total price
- 2 participants
- 30 Days Duration
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Measure The Results on your Life
This protocol will use the following measurements to see how it is impacting your life as compared to other participants.
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Beck Anxiety: Score
Measures the severity of anxiety symptoms and their physiological manifestations through a 21-item self-report questionnaire.
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General Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7): GAD-7 Score
The GAD-7 is a 7-item questionnaire used to assess the severity of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) in adults. The score is based on the responses to seven questions about the frequency of common anxiety symptoms over the past two weeks.
Everything you Need to Participate is Included
If you don’t already have them, you’ll receive all the services and products you need at no extra cost.
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Othership Breathwork App
The Othership Breathwork App offers a transformative approach to wellness, leveraging guided breathwork sessions to enhance mental, physical, and emotional health. Users can reduce stress, improve sleep, boost energy levels, and cultivate mindfulness. The app provides a variety of breathing techniques, tailored to individual goals, fostering relaxation, concentration, and recovery.
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Withings Sleep Mat
For the first time, a home sleep tracker provides sleep-lab insights with the benefit of convenience. There is nothing to wear thanks to an unobtrusive mat designed for one-time setup under the mattress. Withings Sleep concentrates the world’s most advanced sensors and technology to analyze your sleep and detect breathing disturbances. With precise & understandable insights in the Health Mate app, anyone can discover how to achieve better sleep quality for better health.- NOTHING TO WEAR - Easy one-time setup under the mattress makes Withings Sleep fit effortlessly into your life. Plus, with automatic sync via Wi-Fi, there’s nothing you need to do but sleep, and you’ll wake to find all data in the app.
- ADVANCED SLEEP TRACKING - Get a lab-level & in-depth analysis of your night with sleep cycles (deep, light & REM) and their duration, plus sleep duration and interruptions.
- SLEEP SCORE - Get an interpretation of how restorative the night was and learn what you can do to improve it with the Sleep Score. It breaks down your night in 6 meaningful indicators with color-coded feedback to clearly identify the dimension of your sleep that can be improved.
- BREATHING DISTURBANCES DETECTION - Withings Sleep monitors the intensity of breathing disturbances, thanks to an algorithm that analyzes interruptions in breathing patterns that occur during the night. Get to know the intensity of these pauses to learn about the impact they have on your nights.
- SNORE DETECTION - Track the number of snoring episodes and their duration. In the app, learn more about snoring patterns and what impacts them.
- CONTINUOUS HEART RATE TRACKING - Withings Sleep measures your heart rate while sleeping, an indicator reflecting whether enough time is spent in deep sleep and a powerful marker of how your lifestyle impacts your heart health. Know how to interpret your HR with color-coded feedback and get tips to improve it.
- HOME AUTOMATION SCENARIOS - Control lights, temperature, and other smart home devices just by getting into and out of bed via IFTTT integration.
- DEVELOPED WITH EXPERTS, BACKED BY SCIENCE - Developed in collaboration with sleep physicians and included in clinical studies.
A Note from the Protocol Team
Reviewer User
Protocol Coach
Why I created this challenge: In a world where anxiety levels are skyrocketing, breathwork has emerged both in scholarly research and social media as a potent tool for mental health. Studies suggest that structured breathwork can significantly decrease symptoms of anxiety. Social media anecdotes and popular press often highlight transformative personal experiences with breathwork, though rigorous, structured examination is scant. This challenge is pivotal to scientifically validate these claims, integrating clinical rigor with the communal engagement of a social challenge.
My Objective for You: Through the 30-Day Anxiety-Reduction Breathwork Challenge, your objective is to engage daily with the Othership Breathwork App, aiming to reduce your anxiety scores on the Beck Anxiety and GAD-7 scales by day 30.
Aims & Objectives: The primary aim is to scientifically evaluate the effect of daily guided breathwork sessions on anxiety levels, using validated measures like Beck Anxiety and GAD-7 scores. Secondly, we aim to assess the usability and impact of the Othership Breathwork App in everyday settings by participants.
Significance & Impact: This challenge holds significant potential to provide empirical evidence for breathwork as a therapeutic tool, directly impacting mental health practices. Expected outcomes include reduced anxiety scores and improved user engagement with therapeutic breathwork. Limitations include participant adherence to daily sessions and the variability in individual responses to breathwork.
Additional Background Information
Learn more about the importance of this topic and support for our research approach
Protocol Guide & Schedule
Step-by-step coaching to start and maintain your protocol activities, all arranged around your busy day with automated scheduling.
Protocol Overview
Baseline Measurements
Complete Beck Anxiety Inventory
15 minutes @ anytime
Complete General Anxiety Disorder-7 Scale
10 minutes @ anytime
Daily Breathwork Sessions
Daily Guided Session
Repeat 30 times for 10 minutes @ anytime
Follow-up Measurements
Complete Beck Anxiety Inventory
15 minutes @ anytime
Complete General Anxiety Disorder-7 Scale
10 minutes @ anytime
